Characterization and Modeling of the Mechanical Performance of Advanced Alloys—Bridging the Data Gap

Focus: Innovative solutions to the measurement, data, and modeling challenges facing the automotive and materials science communities.

Topics: Measurement methods; mechanical properties; finite element simulation of deformation; integration into manufacturing practices; constitutive relationships.

Developments in Web-Based Materials Property Databases, Knowledge Management of Materials Information, and Materials Informatics for Accelerated Materials Discovery

Focus: Approaches and challenges in development and use of material databases and tools for accelerated research and development.

Topics: Databases; libraries; knowledge management; informatics; markup languages.

Discovery and Optimization of Materials through Computational Design

Focus: Integration of theoretical and computational methods for the development and optimization of materials.

Topics: Computational Materials Science and Design; Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Devices; Microstructural Evolution and Equilibrium Properties Prediction; Ab Initio and Atomistic Simulations

Frontiers in Materials Science: Materials for Sports and Medicine

Focus: Advanced materials and novel processing methods that enable the development of new types of equipment, devices and systems with enhanced capabilities.

Topics: Biocompatibility; bioactivity; impact behavior; drug delivery; advanced prosthetics; implant performance; tissue regeneration.

Fundamentals of Brittle Fracture

Focus: State-of-the-art of the science and technology in brittle fracture.

Topics: Analytical and experimental techniques; scaling; bonding and crack tip interactions; fracture at the nanoscale; dynamic fracture.

High Temperature Material Systems – Fatigue Mechanisms and Prognosis

Focus: Fatigue-creep-environmental interactions in high temperature materials systems used in gas turbine and reciprocating engine systems.

Topics: Microstructure property relationships on fatigue crack initiation and growth under fatigue conditions; role of coatings or alloy compositions; effects of fatigue test conditions on performance; sensing/predicting remaining life capability.

International Symposium on Defects, Transport and Related Phenomena

Focus: Defects, transport and related phenomena in crystalline and noncrystalline materials.

Topics: Structure, including point and other defects in crystalline solids and structure of noncrystalline solids; transport, including crystalline and noncrystalline materials, diffusion, conduction, experimental work, modeling and computational work; relaxation phenomena; other defect-related phenomena such as creep, solid state reactions, optical and magnetic properties.

Numerical, Mathematical and Physical Modeling Tools for Materials Processes

Focus: Development, improvement and industrial implementation of technologies involving materials processing; development and application of tools to help engineers detect key process parameters and use them for improved design and operation.

Topics: Developments in numerical methods, process maps, dimensional analysis, similarity, scale models, pilot plants, physical models, water models and other surrogate materials.

Phase Stability, Diffusion and Their Applications

Focus: Modeling and measurement of phase stability and phase transformations with applications to fundamental topics and engineering materials.

Topics: First principles calculations; thermodynamics and kinetics; phase stability; phase transformations; interdiffusion; oxidation.

What We Can Learn from Failure Analysis

Focus: Use of failure analysis for problem solving.

Topics: Tools and techniques; joining; forming; nonmetallics; corrosion, fatigue and fracture; automotive components.